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Flat Egg Noodles with Basil
From the kitchen of Joseph E. Valencic

Makes enough for 3-4 people.

The truck was in the shop today getting the ABS fixed, so
I was stuck in the house with nothing to do. Well, an
idle mind is the devil's workshop, so I decided to make
homemade noodles for the beef stew I was making for
dinner. So here goes for those who always wanted to
make noodles. It's really easy, especially if you have a
pasta machine. I got mine at the Thrift Shop for $6.99.

Ingredients:

1 C. All purpose flour

1 Egg

1 tsp. Salt

1 Tbs. Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1 ½ tsp. Basil

2 T Water (as needed)

Method:

Blend flour, salt and basil in a bowl. Break the egg in a separate
dish to avoid any shell fragments. Make a depression in the flour
mix and pour in the egg and olive oil. With a fork mix the egg
and oil and slowly draw in flour to the center until you cannot
blend with the fork. Continue blending in the flour using your
fingers, adding water as needed, 1 Tbs. at a time. Dough should
be firm and not sticky. If sticky, add a bit more flour until dough
is smooth and slightly dry to the touch. Roll finished dough into a
log and cut into three pieces to be rolled out.

If using a pasta machine, follow machine directions for making
noodles, using one section of dough log at a time. Finished
dough should be rolled on lowest setting. Be sure to allow
rolled out dough to dry a bit before feeding into noodle rollers.
Never put sticky dough through the machine rollers.

If using a rolling pin, roll dough to 1/16" thick or a little thinner,
turning the dough from front to back several times on a floured
surface. Allow to dry for 10 minutes (you can lightly flour the
dough to speed up drying if it's tacky). Roll up the dough into
a log like a jellyroll, and cut the log into ½ inch wide
segments using a very sharp knife on a cutting board (to save
the edge on your knife). Unroll segments and allow to dry on
a pasta drying rack or on a flour dusted linen towel for about ½
hour. Here's my homemade drying rack.

Coil up pasta into loose piles and put in freezer in an air-tight
container, or cook in salted water or stock about 15 minutes
to use immediately. Here's dinner of beef stew with homemade
egg noodles and Challah bread good, simple comfort
food. ~ Joe (the doughgod)